I raised 2.25000001 BTC out of 2 BTC. Thanks for donation. I will start developing the next version tomorrow.

I am asking 2 BTC total for the development of the next iteration of this game called "The City". It's basically a strategy simulation game in the style of dwarf fortress.

You can read about my game and current development status here: http://kibabase.com/articles/1-btc-later-the-city-game-development-report

You can read about the initial proposal here: http://kibabase.com/articles/the-city-a-modest-proposal

You can donate to this address: 1Mr8EiZfQJEThvzVXjmcoPDyX2AZ3EBzC5

With enough bitcoin, I will start developing the game

[Bitcoin: What Is It?]

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/warfare-in-a-bitcoin-world

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-what-is-it

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-adoption-opportunity-teenagers

We are looking to raise 1.7 BTC for the release of 3 articles from Bitcoin Weekly.

Donation address: 13oN4mavM3bV11CsC72PMZZuq3S3agKKkc

You can also check the balance: http://blockexplorer.com/address/13oN4mavM3bV11CsC72PMZZuq3S3agKKkc

Here is the list of content we are planning to release soon:

1. Bitcoin: What Is It? by Vitalik Buterin
2. Warfare in a Bitcoin Worldn by Vitalik Buterin
3. Bitcoin Adoption Opportunity: Teenagers by Vitalik Buterin

Bitcoin Weekly requires a certain amount of money to be raised via donations. Everyone can donate as much or as little as they like. Eventually, the donation balance will reach our fundraising target. At that point, we will release all ransomed contents

If Bitcoin Weekly creates new content during the period between the start of this ransom and the end of the fundraising, we will add them to the list of ransomed materials. We will also increase the ransom target by .10 BTC.

Term of Condition:
It will be checked via http://blockexplorer.com/address/13oN4mavM3bV11CsC72PMZZuq3S3agKKkc between 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM CST before I go to my day job.

Once 1.7 BTC fundraising target is released, I will try to release the content ASAP once I am informed.

I am too lazy to do much of anything with the 309 BTC I am escrowed with.

But if you have a good idea on how to spread bitcoin and make bitcoin more useful with the money donated, let me know. Just don't make me work too hard.

[Released content:]

Released content:

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/alternative-distributed-currency-creation-and-distribution-models-and-implementation

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/social-democracy-enforced-in-currency

Bitcoin Weekly ransom target is 1 BTC, to release 2 articles.

Donation address: 1ET9QUXZBMHLxFMsqUJnpPFDpk427UL7vC
You can also check the balance: http://blockexplorer.com/address/1ET9QUXZBMHLxFMsqUJnpPFDpk427UL7vC

Here is the list of content we are planning to release soon:

1. Social Democracy Enforced in Currency by Vitalik Buterin
2. Alternative Distributed Currency Creation and Distribution Models and Implementation by Vitalik Buterin

How it works
Bitcoin Weekly requires a certain amount of money to be raised via donations. Everyone can donate as much or as little as they like. Eventually, the donation balance will reach our fundraising target. At that point, we will release all ransomed contents

If Bitcoin Weekly creates new content during the period between the start of this ransom and the end of the fundraising, we will add them to the list of ransomed materials. We will also increase the ransom target by .10 BTC.

Term of Condition:
It will be checked via http://blockexplorer.com/address/1ET9QUXZBMHLxFMsqUJnpPFDpk427UL7vC


For me, if it is found to exceed or meet 1 BTC in the time period of 7:30 AM to 8:00 AM CST(time before I go to my day job), I will publish all material as soon as possible.

It will continues to be check until 1 BTC are donated.

What kind of program or site would you like to see built?

What I am looking for is to build value in the bitcoin economy by building small and useful sites/applications or perhaps just interesting contents to look at(like statistics).

Wanna earn them and build the bitcoin economy. Cause, the bigger the economy, the richer I will be! Note: I don't actually make money from bitcoinweekly and any profit it made goes to Bitcoin Weekly operation funds and expansion. In fact, I probably lost more money in that venture. But it made the Bitcoin landscape a bit better. I am just looking for profitable way to help people.


Remember folks, it gottach be a small project but useful! That's what I choose. Even if you have a crazy ideas, let them loose! I might pick up potential in a similar idea but doable project.

With the money that is currently in the process of being reclaimed from mybitcoin, I will put the money into an organization that will fund the development of bitcoin related projects and the economy. Naturally, these funding will be in the form of prizes, and ambitious at that too.

In any case, I will need to lay out the charter and the framework and how we're going to get funding, the kind of prizes we will be funding, and so forth. For now, it is a vague idea with some funds backing it up.


My thought right now:

1. Study up and learn to use the GLBSE. My idea is that those who own more stocks will be paying more into the foundation each month.

2. 75% to 80% will be going to the funds. The rest will probably be maintenance of hosting and domain names. For best result, efficiency is desired.

3. We should lay out a plan on how we're going to back up and who's going to be escrow.

4. If possible, I would like to split my liability to another trusted escrow agent. This way, both of us would have to lose the money to wipe away the funds.

5. I don't want this charity to be confused with the X-prize foundation. Better names welcomed.

Blah. I don't have the time or energy to do this project. I will either return what left of the funds or pass the money to someone the donors trust.

I might have lost 600 BTC if mybitcoin service went down and never come back up. The 600 BTC I am holding were used for the cause of convincing CCC which went nowhere as their communication sucks. They were tried to be donated to the GIMP campaign but that campaign die out due to my lack of interest.

Eventually, I will list all the forum members who had donated to me as an escrow. They can either decide to forgive my debt or negotiate with me for a repayment.(Hopefully collectively with other users)

I am an employed programmer (at 10 dollars an hours cause I am still very junior), so be very reasonable, especially in a deflationary economy.

Should the mybitcoin service come back up, I will begin the process of refunding the escrow money should donors ask for it.


BUT! I have plan for it too. I wish to establish an Bitcoin X-prize foundation. (Not registered by the gubernment or anything) that award prizes for important achievement for the bitcoin economy and community. In addition to the initial money used to established the foundation, there will be paying members who help increase the prize pot as well vote for projects they want to see funded and serve as judges as to if a prize will be awarded. The X-prize will be used to incentivize economic development in much the same way bounties does in the past but with more certainty to the process and bigger capital.

If there are interest from donors, I will also reserve their escrow money for it and I will pay 5 USD worth of BTC to help chip in for the development cost. Also, I would like to transfer the escrow money for the X-prize to someone trustworthy as determined by donors.


Anyway, I will try to get money out of mybitcoin should it come back up as I don't trust the service anymore.

[Bitcoin, Decentralization and the Nash Equilibrium]

Thanks for the surprisingly quick fundraising.  

1. http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/comics/bitcoin-selloff

2. http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-decentralization-and-the-nash-equilibrium

3. http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-alternative-applications-and-the-profit-motive

Bitcoin Weekly ransom target is .71 BTC, to release 2 articles, and 1 comic.

Donation address: 17fMqMr4KtMWGJMiqrhf3pZTBya73NAXve
You can also check the balance at http://blockexplorer.com/address/17fMqMr4KtMWGJMiqrhf3pZTBya73NAXve

Here is the list of content we are planning to release soon:

1. Bitcoin, Decentralization and the Nash Equilibrium by Vitalik Buterin
2. Bitcoin, Alternative Applications and the Profit Motive by Vitalik Buterin.
3. Bitcoin Selloff by Joey Dangerous. New comic.

How it works
Bitcoin Weekly requires a certain amount of money to be raised via donations. Everyone can donate as much or as little as they like. Eventually, the donation balance will reach our fundraising target. At that point, we will release all ransomed contents

If Bitcoin Weekly creates new content during the period between the start of this ransom and the end of the fundraising, we will add them to the list of ransomed materials. We will also increase the ransom target by .10 BTC.

Term of Condition:
It will be checked via http://blockexplorer.com/address/17fMqMr4KtMWGJMiqrhf3pZTBya73NAXve


For me, if it is found to exceed or meet .71 BTC in the time period of 7:30 AM to 8:00 AM CST(time before I go to my day job), I will publish all material as soon as possible.

It will continues to be check until .71 BTC are donated.

If anybody who also run their business entirely under the public domain, I would be glad to help form an association that promote our shared business interest and the public domain.

We could have a central site that aggregates all the contents of our members, provide news and inquiry on the public domain, and be the forum of discussion for business owners to learn their trade and from others, as well host open source projects that help us run our business.

I hope bitcoinweekly isn't the only site that's running under the public domain policy.

It seems that my competitor, http://thebitcoinsun.com is dead?  

The last published date is almost a month ago.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/

Been working my butt off all night to make bitcoin weekly even more minimalist. 

Love it or hate it, let me know.

Though there is a risk of ignoring things we don't want to hear..there are some people who sprout poor quality craps.

One person is Synaptic. While I am grateful for him for promoting my comics through trolling, I am not grateful for pollution where I am attempting to solve a quality issue with my comics.

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/comics/fiat-kingdom

Also is a fail is this comic I written, http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/comics/the-gavinator

There are time when we succeed massively or fail massively. I believe this time we failed big time. I was told this comic is totally bad, and I agree with this assessment. (Don't you see? Our humor is mostly "crushing our hated enemy", the gubernment)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/m5/false_laughter/

So, I am gathering more feedbacks and comments.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-for-merchants-part-i

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-for-merchants-part-ii

My staff writer, Vitalik Buterin concluded that a really strong payment system is key to Bitcoin's success.

Discuss.

[Bitcoin for Merchants Part 1]

Here are the released content:

1. http://bitcoinweekly.com/comics/fiat-kingdom

2. http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-for-merchants-part-i

3. http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-for-merchants-part-ii

The Bitcoin Weekly ransom target is .70 BTC, to release 2 articles, and 1 comic.

Donation address: 1EywCiz76EeF28qBWYcHKwquG7MGpoHY7M
You can also check the balance at http://blockexplorer.com/address/1EywCiz76EeF28qBWYcHKwquG7MGpoHY7M

Here is the list of content we are planning to release soon:

1. Bitcoin for Merchants Part 1 by Vitalik Buterin in which he analyze the state of payment processing.
2. Bitcoin for Merchants Part 2 by Vitalik Buterin. This time he examines the future of payment processing.
3. Taxes and Bitcoin by Joey Dangerous. New comic.

How it works
Bitcoin Weekly requires a certain amount of money to be raised via donations. Everyone can donate as much or as little as they like. Eventually, the donation balance will reach our fundraising target. At that point, we will release all ransomed contents

If Bitcoin Weekly created new content during the period between the start of this ransom and the end of the fundraising, we will add them to the list of ransomed materials. We will also increase the ransom balance by .10 BTC.

In addition, we also have sponsorship by advertisers. They provide an incentives for users to donate by giving users discounts and deals.

Sponsorships

If you wishes to take advantages of deals offered in this thread, you will need to email me for the discount and a unquie donation address. This is crucially important because a donation to the unique address will prove that you have indeed donate to Bitcoin Weekly. Otherwise, donating to the address listed in this forum will not net you anything. For discounts and deals, email me at hackerkiba    at    gmail.com

As of right now, squarewear.biz offer 10% off any total order for your donation. Do not also forget that buying any Bitcoin Weekly t-shirt at the store also means additional revenue for our magazine.


BitBrew is also offering 10% discounts for people who donated .05 BTC. Good for one time only.

Term of Condition:
It will be checked via http://blockexplorer.com/address/1EywCiz76EeF28qBWYcHKwquG7MGpoHY7M


For me, if it is found to exceed or meet .70 BTC in the time period of 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM CST(time before I go to my day job), I will publish all material as soon as possible.

It will continues to be check until .70 BTC are donated.

A new Bitcoin Weekly t-shirt will be coming out soon:



These cost 15 dollars each, so it's like 1 BTC at current price. Half of the profit goes back to Bitcoin Weekly to support its mission in creating fabulous magazine. You will be able to buy it at http://squarewear.biz

So... Will you buy this shirt?

Wanna write for Bitcoin Weekly? Here are the details: http://bitcoinweekly.com/pages/submission


If you have questions or spot errors and mistakes(I am bad at writing proper english), let me know.

Something Awful likes Bitcoin Weekly comics so much that they link to it on a bitcoin thread.

Ain't that awesome?

[The MtGox Attack]

Bitcoin Weekly released two articles, one comic for the target sum of .70 BTC, now with .7006 BTC.

Here is what was released:

Articles:

1. The MtGox Attack by Thedore Minick
2. Calm After the Storm by Vitalik Buterin

Comics:

1. The Gavinator by Joey Dangerous

You can check the final balance at blockexplorer: http://blockexplorer.com/address/19Kb7agdLYqJcdrxksjP47YssyTr7f2Wz3

Bitcoin Weekly will now run ransoms event for our articles, in which articles are kept until a specific donation target is reached. For us, our pilot experiment suggests that we can raise money for the publication this way

You will play a role by incentiving donors with deals and discounts. For example, if somebody donate .10 BTC, he might get a 20% discounts for the next 10 t-shirt and so forth. Contact me at hackerkiba  AT  gmail.com for more details.